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Show MINING STOCKS LOWER; MANY,SALES ARE MADE ' Although the morning call on the mining mi-ning exchange was much mora satl-.' satl-.' factory as far as the volume of business went, . prices still continue to show weakness and the general trend of, the market was decidedly lower. Nearly every stock on. the list dealt ln and they were not many, fell off In price and the close was very weak. May' Day, while it did not fall off to any appreciable extent, still showed little lit-tle signs of advance, and after selling as high as 12 cents fell off to 12 cents on the open board. . Star Consolidated, which has been woefully neglected lately, made one sale at 11 cents, but little stock was on the market, and that price was freely offered of-fered at the close without any stock coming out. Victoria, while not a great deal " stronger than on Thursday, was in big demand and after opening, at $1.87 tnoved up to $2.02 and was held even higher at the close. New York did not recover, as wa expected, ex-pected, and after opening at 30 cents fell off to 28 ft cents on the open board. The , close was very weak. Daly was stronger than, it has been for some little time, and sold as high as $12, although the demand was limited. The closing quotations follow: Bld. , Asked. AJax $ .11 .12ft Alice 26 ' - .... Boston Consolidated 6.37ft 7.23 Bullion-Beck 75 .... - Beck Tunnel OS Butler-Liberal 12 .13ft i wheop things up during December. A larger f orce is now working than ever before, and as soon as the plans are perfected the force will again be increased. in-creased. Next year will without doubt see the Maxfleld ranked with" the big mines of the State. The plan to run a drain tunnel tun-nel will not only free them of all trouble trou-ble with the water, but will also give turnover 1140 feet of stoping ground not now available. The company has already shipped two big lots to market this month, and another is expected before be-fore the end of the month. TODAY'S TONOPAH AND ' GOLD FIELD STOCKS. Furnished by Child. Cole ft Co., 100 Alas block. - Tonopah, common . $ 9.30 Tonopah Belmont , 69 Tonopah Extension 3.00 Tonopah Midway ' 35 Tonopah North Star 23 Jim Butlejr 60 McNamara .36 Atontana-Tonopoh 1.88 Columbia Mountain .' 21 Diamondfleld 27 Gold Held . 70 Jumbo . CO Jumbo Extension i 22 Sandstorm SO NEARLY DONE AT THE CONTINENT AL-ALTA. - Manager Cfowther of the Continental uansa .is Consolidated Mercur 83H .39 Century 0 .13 folo .40 Daly , 2.60 Daly-Judge 4.90 B.OO Daly West 11.00 13.00 Eagle A Blue Bell .90 Galena 08 .... , Grand Central ..., 3.06 .... ' Ingot 01 .03 Jin Butler .50 LltUe Bell 1.00 Uttle Chief 02U .02 lxwer Mammoth 06 Montana Tonopah 1.70 1.87ft Mammoth 1.18 1.39 May Day .12 .12 Martha Washington .01 New York .SO Ontario 3.92ft 4.50 Petro 08 .... Rocco-Homestake .60 ' Swansea 20 -Jo . South Swansea .04 .08 Sacramento 09 .10ft Silver King 60.00 65.00 Star Consolidated 11 .lift Silver Shield 07 .08 Tonopah .50 Tetro 17ft .18 T'nlted 8tates 23.37ft 26.25 Uncle Sam Consolidated ... .22ft .2Sft Utah 35ft .42 Victoria 2.00 2.03 . Victor Con 03ft .04 Wabash 2.00 2.32 Yankee Consolidated 36ft - .37ft MORNING SALES. May Day. 4500 at 12ftc; 2500 at 12c; 600 at 12ftc. seller thirty days; 200 at 12c. Star Consolidated. 600 at 11c. Victoria. 200 at 11.97; 100 at $1.98; 200 at $2; 100 at $2.01: 100 at $2.02. New York. 300 at 30c; 700 at 29ftc. . OPEN BOARD. I Daly West 65 at $12; 10 at $11.75. May Day, 600 at 12c, seller thirty days; 5atl2ftc. . New York. 600 at 29c; 600 at 29c; 600 at Alta reports that he has over fifty men now working at the tramway from the mine to the mill. The last of the sixty-tour sixty-tour towers will be completed by Saturday Sat-urday night and the work of stringing cables has already begun. The second .tar of rope has been received on the ground and will be followed Immediately Imme-diately by four more cars. The upper terminal is entirely completed as are, the two tension stations. The men are now working hard to finish up the angle stations which will be completed next week. The pipe-line from the dam to the mill Is rapidly nearlng completion comple-tion and water will be turned into it by the end of next week. The storm, which was, much heavier at 'Alta than in this city, occasioned some delay but with that exception everything has been moving nicely. The mill is entirely completed and is leauy to receive ore. MILL AT SEVIER CON". IS RUNNING STEADILY. The mill'on the property of the Sevier Se-vier Consolidated at Gold mountain ha now passed its trial stage and is run-Ling run-Ling steadily on fifty tons a day. or about one-half capacity. The process is a combination of amalgamation, amal-gamation, concentration and cyanidlng and saves at least 95 per cent of the values. The ore yields up over $14 per ten. and when the mill is wcrked at full capacity the profits will be very large. The ore is crashed wet, a cyanide solution so-lution running through the crusher and The mine is showing up splendidly. A new body of ore has been uncovered in the No. 3 tunnel and the body in the No. 1 tunnel has increased greatly in size. The big outcrops amove the mine are being quarried down and some phe-nominal phe-nominal gold values have been found at that point. The mine could easily respond to a demand for 300 tons a day. MINING NOTES. C. K. McCorr.ick has returned from a trip to the Gold Roads mine near Kingman, Ariz. The Oasis of the Drum district shipped a car of ore Thursday. It is rumored that the directors of the Sunbeam of Tintic will shortly declare de-clare a dividend derived from royalties resulting from the operation of. the property under lease. Frank P. Swindler, manager of th Bambc-ger-De La Mar of De La Mar, is in th city. George Gunn of the American Smelt ing and Refining company's staff has rone out to the diggings on one of his periodical trip. A. J. MeMuIIen of the Skylark of Beaver county will leave for that property prop-erty Friday night. The Big Cottonwood Gold and Copper Cop-per Mining company is preparing to install in-stall a power plant and machine drills. " The Taylor & Brunton sampler re-portsthe re-portsthe arrival of thirteen cars of ore from Tonopah, three from Bingham crd four from Tintic. , 28ftc . . TOTAL SALES. Regular 9900 shares for $2712.62. Open board, 2575 shares for $1473.38. Grand total, 12,475 shares for $4186. - Child, Col & Co., Brokers, 100 Atlas block. Both 'phones S2ft BOSTON CON. STOPS ORE SHIPMENTS HERE. After shipping two cars a day for three or tour days the Boston Consolidated Consoli-dated will Friday discontinue shipments. ship-ments. How long It will be before the mine again ships Its ores to the smelters of this valley is not known, nor indeed is the reason for the stop of production. It has to do with the proposed sale of the property to the Amalgamated without with-out doubt, however, and may be for the purpose of giving the Amalgamated experts ex-perts time for supplementary examinations). examina-tions). If the property is sold to the ' Amalgamated there is small doubt that some cheaper method of handling the Boston Consolidated ores will be used than now obtains. Either a mammoth concentrator, such as Im now operating so successfully at. . ' the Utah Copper company's property, or a smelter, will probably be built. There is little doubt that the Amalgamated Amalga-mated experts who have examined the property were satisfied with it and people peo-ple Interested in the camp of Bingham are eagerly awaiting the-official news of the proposed deal. The amount: of ore which was1 shipped this week is probably proba-bly what had accumulated in the bins while development work has been going on since shipments ceased about two months ago. LOCAL MEN HAVE LUCK IN IDAHO MINES. News has been received from Charles W. Luck of this city, who 'with W. H. TIbbals and others of this city are operating a-group of three claims in the Thunder Mountain district, of Idaho, Ida-ho, that the assessment work for. the present yar lias been completed, and that the property is safely held for another an-other year at least. While' doing the assessment work "a - fine body at least twelve feet in width of milling ore was uncovered. This body occurs on the extension of the main vein in the Independence property. prop-erty. ' The Independence has Just been sold for $80,000 cash and the money paid down, and It is the Intention ' of the purchasers to erect a mill on the property prop-erty 'as soon as the weather opens up next spring. It is likely that this mill will handle some of the ore in the three claims, owned by Mr. Luck and his associates as-sociates at'Ieast until they are ready to erect a mill of their own. MAXPTELD SHOWS WELL. The past month has been a banner one for the Maxfleld of Big Cottonwood canyon. That property has been pro- duclng more this year than ever before, and an especial effort was made to |